Healing rituals are at the heart of a conscious and holistic approach to end of life. This issue of Natural Transitions Magazine spotlights rituals for both pre and post death, including community shrouding circles with Holly Blue Hawkins, gourd urn art cremation based on biography work by Deb Hallinan-Batson, rituals to foster relationships with our dead by Lynn Stull,Healing through prayer and journaling by Brette Petway, and living wakes by Dina Stander. And among other offerings, author and activist, Bart Windrum explains how he has "mapped our dying" in his helpful new book on how and where we die.